#blees this update

[missrun0]

At that moment I forgot how to breath

Raymond wanted Leander so bad, HE WAS SO CLOSE COME ON

Give Raymond his wife PLEASE.

(I also want Leander as my wife)

[hee-blee-art]

incoming blog changes

hi friends, I will soon be updating both this blog and my misc sideblog (@butchjesus) to change the content of each a bit!

butchjesus was originally meant for work-in-progress posts, oc posts (mine and reblogs), and silly posts (whether art or text or otherwise). long story short it was meant to keep my main (this blog) less cluttered, which it has, but with several catches. there's now an arbitrary split of art posts between here and there that I don't think is working so well (especially because I end up cross-posting /reblogging between them anyway), and I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to keep them seperate (compared to, say, @cleaverdream, which while not super active is clearly themed a certain way).

so! what will be different?

the majority of my art, including traditional drawings & sketches, will be posted here on hee-blee-art. wips and some silly little doodles will go on butchjesus, but that blog will go back to being mostly textposts (oc posting, reblogs, and my own sillyposts), the way I had initially intended.

you can expect some reblogs between the two in the near future as I adjust my directories n things, but I'll space them out. just wanted to give a head's up!

tl:dr; this blog will be getting more art, and butchjesus will be getting less moving forward, so be sure to follow here for art and there for oc stuff, silly posts, and other extras.

[status-updates]

Hidden away in a land where players can't reach, an interro steps out of his penthouse office, into the rest of his building. It's populated with robotic workers he's built specifically to work for him. But they're not forced to, or anything. In the case one accidentally doesn't come with the default aspirations, he lets them go. Acts like these and his overall charisma, as well as quirky sidekicks make him one of the more popular people in his realm.

his name is Status Updates, but everyone just calls him Updates. He wears a badge with an A on it to commemorate his survival of an experience he deeply regrets partaking in. Oh look, it's walking towards him.

Ah, Ravo, you're... here. How are you doing?

bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

I thought so. Have the bots met their quo- shoot.

[He begins shaking.] Block. Bomber. Brother. Bench. Building. Brocc-

[A covers the spot where their mouths are assumed to be.] yes, thank you. Good job. You wanna get ice cream or something?

bbbbbbbb- actually yes that sounds quite nice. bbbbbbbbbb

.... is ice cream even a thing that exists- sure, we'll uh, find some.

[Updates turns to the door, only to see his bodyguard in his way.]

JESU- god, I will NEVER get used to that. How long were you there this time?

[Delta, who came to existence through similar methods to B, despite being approximately two and a half times larger than the other two, is very methodical, and very quiet. So much, people quite frequently get scared by him apparently having been there for a while.]

Since you started talking to him. I heard we're going on a b- on a 15 minu- what's another word?

a... day off.

Yeah, a day off. For ice cream.

I was honestly joking but I can't- dang it.

Blank. Black. Begin. Bring. Basic. Bible. Beach. Brown Berry. Blee-

[Delta urges B to shush by picking him up and shaking him a little. They head out of the office.]

[ask-krillverse]

UPDATE!

you may have noticed the username change. this is now a general oc of @clay-pidgeon askblog. current listing includes:

perimuth park (xe/it)

ginger rosa (he/him)

virtue courtenlock (she/her)

vanessa engel (they/he/any)

etoile devereaux (she/any)

jacobey kimura (he/him)

trilly morbert (she/her)

comet mhorlborne (he/ae)

blee cyaneus (he/she/they)

valley vertin (?????)

mahogany north (he/any)

gary sweetsunn (he/him)

mayberry sweetsunn (she/her)

corbin sweetsunn (he/him)

adelaide "sweetsunn" (they/them)

new tags:

asks: asks!

krillposting: og posts. being made.

ooc: out of character sts

artz: actua art

reblob: reblogs of. related things (youd find more luck in the oc tags of the mainblof lol)

NOTE most of those characters are teenagers and this blog is run by one so Be Regular! smiley

[deliriumsdelight7]

TMI Tuesday

Bad news, I’m afraid - I have gotten exactly ZERO writing done since last week’s post. Four and a half months of fucked up sleep have finally caught up with me (she says, as though she wasn’t ignoring the signs of it gradually catching up with her). At this point, when I’m not working, chances are I’m sleeping or otherwise resting because I just can’t stay awake. So. That’s fun.

Anyway. My appointment with an ENT is less than two weeks away, so I will FINALLY get looked at. I really, really hope they take me seriously and do something ASAP because otherwise my sleep study isn’t scheduled until JULY. I’m more or less a zombie at this point. Adding three more months to this won’t do me any favors.

So… all of that is to say, updates will be sporadic at best. I’ve looked at the three WIPs I’ve been working on, and… it’s not good. Not in my usual, “blurr blee blurr I’m so terrible” way but in a legitimate, “I cannot keep a thought in my head long enough to write it to completion, so these chapters are disjointed as fuck” way. Basically my choices are 1.) keep forcing words out and put out something shitty, or 2.) stop writing and hope I don’t lose momentum for another 15 year dry spell. Neither option appeals. So I’m going for a third option: write one sentence a day. That’s it. If the words keep flowing, I’ll keep writing. If they don’t, I’ll close my document and do something else, like draw or transcribe my DnD sessions. Something that keeps the creative juices flowing but gives my brain a rest.

You guys should ask me stuff! Ask about my DnD character (he’s so cool you guys he’s SUCH a wife guy loser). Throw art inspo at me. Or just drop in and say hi! Not to put too fine a point on it, but I could really use the pick-me-up.

Hope to hear from you!

[sillysparklecare]

new update: kind of large edition this time!

added new buttons to the teleport gui for teleporting to wedoncare, the concert venue at citycountrytown, the dump's obstacle course, and the thurston hope museum

added a ton of new morphs: cometcare mood, cometcare jay, cometcare till, cometcare rem, till fate, dr. nugget, president meat, terry blee ill, harry blee ill, colonel cornelius, kid dies, and burnett l. philly

added a "variants" section of the morph room where you can pick alternate versions of existing morphs

added the earlier versions of barry and doom for this variants section

added nightstars morphs to the cometcare pass and renamed it to the au characters gamepass

fixed an issue where the teleport ui showed up off-center

updated dr. prickles, frosty, norma, chem, cream, marco, cometcare barry, and cometcare uni to use their latest refs

updated catter kitter and renamed him to sickov thistle (his actual name)

adjusted the main morph room to fit more characters

renamed some morphs to use their full names

moved the chunklings' volume 2 designs to the variants section

[goblin-king5566]

RED VALLEY UPDATE

THEY BLEE UP MALCOM???? GORDON-???MY BOYYS

HES ALIVE THEIR SO DORKY AND ADORAVLE HES ALIVE!!!!! MY BIY HES ALIVE!!!!!!!!! Their so cuuuuttteeeeee I’m gonna cryyyy

RED VALLEY UPDATE

so they woke up pookie- REUNITED BRO SOBBING- FUTURE GORDON ALIVE????? PLEASE??? Brother done rip out your cathider

[davidmann95]

DC 5G - what we know, what we 'know', what's left

NOTE: This has been updated significantly since I initially posted it, with assorted chunks of information parceled out by Dan DiDio in a Word Balloon interview, labeled UPDATE, or a new slate of scoops dug up by - deep sigh - Bleeding Cool (who for all their rumormongering, provably had details on this given how early details of theirs eventually bore out in published comics), labeled UPDATE 2. Most of my fairly glowing opinions accompanying these details are from my original version of this pre-Dark Crisis; I put a very different 'up-to-date' response at the bottom. A bunch of the UPDATE 2 stuff also had titles attached, but they seem...placeholder-ey, so I'll ignore them.

With Dark Crisis approaching and my bitterness rising as it looks more and more like an off-ramp to the idea of a next-gen DCU than anything else - with titles like Son of Kal-El and I Am Batman completely fizzling out in the meantime while Wonder Girl goes under entirely - I've gone back to thinking about the original 5G plan. Those who follow me on Twitter know I've gone over the last couple years from 'hmm, I'm interested in Jon as Superman, but gosh that timeline is dumb' to a hardcore '5G WAS THE TRUTH AND THE WAY, THE MOMENT THE STOPPED CLOCK WAS RIGHT, DC WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAVE YOU DONE' partisan, even if the timeline's still kinda dumb.

It was always going to alienate the existing fanbase: it's an approach that besides the face-value shakeup itself puts slow-burn soap development on the backburner in favor of moving fast and breaking things, and potentially results in your faves not graduating to the 'right' positions or ending up in the 'right' relationships to boot, plus a new generation of heroes composed in large part of original characters rather than those who 'earned it' via decades of mostly clinging to life in team books or guest appearances. My being way more interested in the potential of the vast revision of the archetypes and a proper injection of mythic sweep and enduring legacy into a shared universe ostensibly built on those is at the end of a day a difference of taste, but as for my arguments beyond that:

I don't think it can be reasonably argued that The Son of Superman and The Next Batman treated with seriousness wouldn't have been far more attention-getting to broader audiences (and a richer template for that sweet sweet IP farming DC publication now explicitly exists in service of) than rebooting the classic bunch for the 5th or 6th time.

The classic folks still would've been in Black Label and the like forever; yes, for the most part their classic-mold ongoing adventures would be over, but being extremely real most Batman stories would work pretty much the same with someone else under the cowl, and if there's something ala Tom King's Batman that's character-driven and demands space to breathe, it's been shown there's space for that outside of continuity with the likes of...sigh. White Knight.

DC having to ride or die by the new names as their headliners would have meant those characters wouldn't have had the opportunity to languish in genuinely crappy books the way they have - they would have had to immediately sell at least their new Justice League on the strength of their immediate quality with little pertinent backlog to lean on and basically no fallback option.

The loglines of characters built for those gigs tend to be a lot more straightforward than the baggage of folks who've been around for decades having been created to fulfill different functions.

Let's again be real, the significant majority of the existing readership would've sighed and still bought everything with the big names on the covers if not been actively hyped.

Anyway, with all that in mind and the likely-forsaken potential of the concept being a frequent topic of discussion with some friends of mine, I felt the urge to once again revive the Tumblr and put together a rough outline of what we know about the '5G' setup. From assorted scoops (mostly from Bleeding Cool, which I won't be linking to but demonstrated they knew at least the broad strokes of what was happening here), interviews, and indicators in comics that actually have been published, I wanted to see the shape of the baby thrown out with DiDio's bathwater. Starting someplace unexpected:

When I was first getting into comics, my dad informed me of a rumor he'd heard about that at the end of the new event comic Final Crisis, the Justice League was going to die and would become the NEW New Gods, with their sidekicks and children stepping up in their place, making it a truly 'final' crisis for the DCU as we knew it. While that didn't play out, apparently there was something to it: according to BC, this was in fact the big idea at one point, reportedly under the banner of 'The Fifth World' paying off some notions from Grant Morrison's JLA that were being revived in Final Crisis. This seems shocking given Dan DiDio's notorious antipathy towards the likes of Dick Grayson and Wally West, but his primary complaints about them - that Dick was forever stuck between his iconic past as Robin and grand future as Batman, he and Wally both breaking the DCU by their very existences in aging while their predecessors remain eternal - would have been solved by this shift. His old declaration that Nightwing could only survive Infinite Crisis if something was done to justify him makes a lot more sense if the gears had immediately started turning to make him Batman.

Along with Dick, and likely Cassie Sandsmark as Wonder Woman since Donna Troy had just filled that spot, with the benefit of hindsight it's clear the stage was being set for a new generation lineup: Bart Allen had become The Flash and even after his death was set up for an immediate resurrection, Kurt Busiek was establishing a new Aquaman, Jason Rusch and Jaime Reyes and Ryan Choi were the new Firestorm and Blue Beetle and Atom, Roy Harper had taken a seat in the JLA as Red Arrow, and Freddie Freeman was the new Captain Marvel, with Hal presumably sticking around as rep for the old guard given Johns had just returned him to glory. And right around the corner was Blackest Night to give the kids a trial by fire in the face of their zombie predecessors, with the get out of jail free card of the white rings to bring all the originals back at the end if this whole experiment immediately flopped.

Conner Kent as Superman was presumably going to be a crown jewel, with Chris Kent perhaps being set up as his Superboy with a background conceptually near-identical to Damian Wayne as the new Robin (scion of a major villain taken in by a Superdad, they're separated, by the time the kid makes it back dad is gone and a big brother has to step up). You've even got a big easy passing-of-the-torch moment at the end of Final Crisis with Clark giving up everything he has to activate the Miracle Machine - an odd non-sequitur with no consequences in the story as-is - and a final declaration 'look up in the sky' at an army of approaching Supermen Conner could well have been leading as his grand debut.

And there's a VERY interesting context if you consider what ultimately happened in place of The Fifth World in the form of the New 52 - a younger, cockier Superman who ends up dating a Wonder Woman who's now Zeus's kid. It seems some of the big ideas were still carried over, especially considering under Grant Morrison that new Superman in a t-shirt and jeans fights Luthor who considers him a lab specimen (alongside Brainiac, as Conner would in Johns and Manapul's brief Adventure Comics run in place of all this, and who Morrison reconceptualizes as a preservationist dedicated to holding a newly-changed world in amber), and then new equivalents and 'successors' to the likes of Mxyzptlk, the classic Phantom Zoners, Terra-Man, and the Kryptonite Man, culminating in a battle with a combination of Bizarro - the ultimate Superman clone - and Doomsday - the franchise-killer whose existence roundabout birthed Conner - for the right to the Superman brand. Was Morrison going to do Conner as Superman alongside Batman and Robin, and they repurposed those 'Superman 2' ideas along with that one All-Star spinoff to create their Action Comics run? Did they just hear that was the plan and kick around some ideas of how they'd handle it that were reused later? Or do those pieces mostly just fit because 'new era' ideas can make near-equal sense whether applied a reboot or a new guy in the cape?

(Perhaps a strike against coincidence: All-Star Superman ends with the conception of a test-tube child of Superman via what was once Cadmus, essentially Conner's origin. Morrison's gone on the record that Batman R.I.P. ends the way it does to provide an iconic 'death' for Bruce setting up Dick as the new guy for those who weren't reading Final Crisis; it seems at least a little bit possible that All-Star at the same time had a similar idea at the back of its mind if it wasn't outright geared to serve that purpose.)

UPDATE: DiDio confirmed Final Crisis was originally meant to lead into a next-gen relaunch, and also mentioned there were plans to pair this with an 'Ultimate'-style line still starring Clark, Bruce, and Diana, and that All-Star and Earth One lines were also both failed attempts at an Ultimate DC. Given the timing, it may be fair to assume that Earth One was initially intended to be paired with Fifth World, and why it was so quickly supplanted by the New 52 when its initial purpose was nullified; if nothing else, it'd explain why that ostensibly mass-market initiative had a nerd-ass name like Earth One.

An interesting bunch of notions, but let's go from the Fifth World to the Fifth Generation: between all the stuff I mentioned earlier there's actually a pretty clear picture of how 5G would've looked, at least concerning the big names.

Kal-El lands on Earth in 1938 as the kickoff to this world's history, though Wonder Woman emerges in 1939 as the first public superhero (shown by Snyder and Hitch in Wonder Woman #750); she leads the Justice Society of America until leaving man's world after the atomic bomb's dropped. Clark operates quietly in Smallville as Superboy, but he stops when the JSA disbands in 1955 in protest of HUAC wanting them to disclose their identities (though according to the solicit for the cancelled Generation One: Age of Mysteries there was a secret 'real' reason they disassembled; apparently a Golden Age hero would also become a great villain, and a secret deal of some sort would be struck to "keep the Wayne family dynasty alive" after Thomas and Martha's murders).

Clark is operating in secret as Superman by 1963 and meets JFK who encourages him to gather other heroes in service of a finer world (as seen in the opening of Superman and The Authority; as published after 5G was scrapped this was recontextualized as a time-travel adventure), with him and Batman both publicly debuting in 1965 and the Justice League of America forming soon after with a returned Wonder Woman. The events of 1965-1985 were meant to be depicted one year per issue in a 21-part series by Mark Russell which would later be heavily reimagined as Superman: Space Age.

Crisis on Infinite Earths occurs in 1985, and everything from then to Death Metal is largely the same, just over an elongated expanse of time and with a few irreconcilable continuity-specific bits like Superman/Wonder Woman excised. Apparently the assorted Crisis events cause years to be 'skipped', allowing key characters to retain some relative youth.

(The Other History of the DC Universe while not a 1:1 appears to have been constructed to roughly fit with this given John Ridley was ultimately a 5G architect, with the JLA emerging in the 70s or possibly 60s if you fudge the narration a bit and still going strong in 2010.)

By the present day, the bulk of the JLA have passed, retired, or otherwise stepped back; the Titans now fill the traditional 'old guard' slot.

The initial prompt offered by DiDio to creators was notoriously for an aged Clark to pursue a totalitarian path and assemble a new version of The Authority as his vanguard. Apparently that wasn't a hard-and-fast direction, as it was radically reconfigured by Grant Morrison into Superman and The Authority, which in the original 5G version would have ended with the revelation that Clark had somehow secretly been split into 'Red' and 'Blue' versions increasingly representing his dueling conservative and revolutionary instincts, with leftie Blue forming the team we currently see, and rightwing Red reforming the classic lineup swapping out Midnighter and Apollo with a likely unwitting Damian Wayne and Jon Kent.

When the dust settled and presumably a reconstituted Clark pursued his own adventures (UPDATE: DiDio noted Clark would continue losing his powers as his capacity as a 'solar battery' dimmed, grooming The Authority to take over for him completely), a 23 year old Jonathan would become the new main Superman, likely written by Matt Fraction according to a Word Balloon podcast, reportedly dating Jenny Sparks and Smallville acting as his 'Fortress' with the citizens working to maintain his privacy when visiting. Between being duped into following Red and under unknown circumstances bottling Metropolis he would likely be starting on the backfoot and needing to prove himself to the world as a worthy inheritor.

UPDATE 2: Along with losing his powers, part of the impetus behind Superman's retirement per DiDio's original plan would be that after revealing his identity to the world, Clark would begin pressuring other members of the Justice League to engage in similar transparency, ultimately forming a divide that would lead to the end of the team (with Jon spending much of his time in the 31st century with the Legion to avoid the whole affair). He passes the mantle to Jon and retires with Lois to Africa (this was also a plot point in Future's End; I guess Dan had it in the back pocket for awhile for some reason?), but ends up performing covert superheroics that lead to The Authority's formation.

UPDATE 2: Jon's solo title would proceed as described, with his own 'neverending battle' to avert the destruction of the original Earth seen in the Legion's timeline. I also suspect Morrison's Red-and-Blue division was also an attempt at having a figure to take the blame for some actions covered further below.

As originally pitched by Tynion when his run was meant to lead into 5G, at the climax of Joker War the Clown Prince of Crime is shot and left in a permanent comatose state by Selina Kyle, ending her relationship with Bruce. Left with no resources, no Alfred, no Gordon, no arch-nemesis, and a Gotham being radically rebuilt in a new image, Bruce concludes the time of Batman is over and that he should find other ways to help the world with his remaining years, leaving Gotham (presumably this period was pitched for by Tom Taylor and later became The Detective with Andy Kubert) and asking his allies not to pick up his mantle. Damian would take his place at the throne of Leviathan in his own move to remake the world and become the 'Magneto' to Jon's 'Professor X', still cordial in respect to their past friendship but at the end of the day enemies. Jace - in early rumors (UPDATE: and according to DiDio) Luke, but John Ridley has said it was Jace for as long as he was onboard - becomes the next Batman, disdained by Damian for taking up the Batman mantle and on awkward terms with the new Superman. Tynion also had an idea for a 5G Joker title about a teenager radicalized by Joker's legacy that instead became Punchline.

UPDATE: DiDio confirmed that by the time everything fell through, the plan was instead for Joker to survive and kill Bane before revealing Batman's identity to the world after their final battle; Bruce is imprisoned because he's held partially culpable for Bane's death (he 'freezes' when Joker says he plans to do this, giving Joker a chance to escape, and he fears that since Bane killed Alfred he subconsciously allowed him to do it). Clark later breaks him out, eventually setting up a generational war between Clark and Bruce against Jon/Damian/Luke as the culmination of the initial 5 year roadmap for 5G.

UPDATE 2: Apparently the original plan was for Batman to straight-up agree to let Joker kill Bane, good lord. Guess the 'freezing' thing was a wiggle room compromise ala how Morrison handled Authority, though with...less panache. Anyway, Bruce makes amends with his family and closes up shop before retiring to England (a pitch for which was indeed the original kernel for the aforementioned Taylor/Kubert book).

UPDATE 2: Batman - definitely Luke Fox in the original plan, with concept art by Mikel Janin pictured above, meaning Ridley definitively wasn't there at inception - would have as noted fought Damian Wayne, and Tamara Fox would have discovered his identity and become Robin against his protests. After fighting a returned Joker Bruce's culpability in Bane's death would be discovered, and Bruce would have willingly turned himself in.

Regarding several of the other books: Green Lantern was to be written by Jeff Lemire, spearheading a 'horror line' for 5G and presumably starring Jo Mullein (UPDATE 2: it would have actually starred a 'main DCU' take on the necromancer Tangent Green Lantern, with Jo as the Lantern of the team Justice Alliance). Tim Sheridan would write a Nightwing/Oracle title and the new Flash book; the latter was reportedly the child of Captain Boomerang, so his ideas there were likely recycled into Bolt for his Titans Academy, the daughter of Australian criminals. Brian Bendis would be writing spy books and the Green Arrow ongoing according to a Word Balloon interview of his own. Phillip Kennedy Johnson was doing something for a 'space line'. UPDATE 2: Ram V and Mike Perkins' Swamp Thing was additionally part of 5G, and apparently Yara Flor was originally imagined as Wonder Woman.

Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, and Chip Zdarsky were collectively working on a project involving the new Superman and Batman that ultimately fell through, whether as soon as Warren Ellis's involvement in any of DC's affairs was taken off the table, or if it would have proceeded without him but collapsed with the line. Presumably Zdarsky's end of it morphed in some fashion into Justice League: Last Ride, showing the sundowning days of the now-disbanded League.

(Pure personal speculation: the roughly contemporaneous The Batman's Grave when Ellis was part of the 5G braintrust may have been intended to provide a non-continuity perennial 'ending' to Bruce which would still leave him alive in accordance with his upcoming setup, same as All-Star would've provided a clean continuity-free transition point from Clark to Conner.)

UPDATE: This likely morphed into a weekly series described by DiDio by Fraction, Greg Rucka, Bendis, and Kelly Sue DeConnick charting the path of how the old guard stepped down (while still remaining alive and on the table) while the new generation emerged; his recollection was that this was titled something to the effect of Last Call, further suggesting Last Ride was a mutation of this book.

UPDATE 2: Alternatively, it may have been Changing of the Guard, an event parallel Last Call which would have shown the rise of the new generation of heroes, focusing on the new Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

UPDATE: DiDio noted that the G's were divided by central superhero team - Justice Society of America, Justice League of America, Justice League International, Justice League, and then the "new Justice series", suggesting the era's big superhero team would have a new title rather than being a new League.

UPDATE 2: The new team would have been known as the Justice Alliance, assembled by Superman and Batman in a World's Finest miniseries (I suppose another candidate for the Ellis/Fraction/Zdarsky project, though this seems to have been a little late in the game to have had a team assigned so early on) composed of Jon, Luke, Yara, Jo, and the aforementioned new Flash. Tim Sheridan would have either written this miniseries or Justice Alliance itself; the wording of the report is unclear.

UPDATE 2: Clark breaking Bruce out of jail - which apparently was just for the sake of breaking him out of jail? - would have noted led to a generational civil war triggering the endgame of the 5G plan roundabouts 2024. To help win Clark would undergo a process to restore his former powers, but this overload of his powers would place the entire Earth at risk as foretold in the Legion's history. With Bruce somehow sacrificing himself to save the world and both men dying, the future is changed, and Jon and Luke definitively the new Superman and Batman...unless it was decided in 2025 that the initiative wasn't working, with a 'back door' planted into this chain of events to instead reboot to a clean slate with Clark and Bruce and company back in their primes.

So your mileage will vary tremendously here, because even aside from the seismic nature of the shift everybody would find themselves pissed off by something or another in here, myself included ('everything counts' except Golden Age Superman? At least Clark’d be doing that kind of stuff in the present, but. Plus that's kind of a shame of a fate for Damian pending his inevitable face turn, though I haven’t liked much else with him since he was brought back and this could still at least be interesting. And, again, an exact timeline's pretty dopey and fruitlessly doomed to near-immediate expiration) - that's the nature of a big swing. But there's also stuff for everybody here: Superman gets a huge thematic tip of the hat to his nature as the first superhero while Wonder Woman is the public first to line up with the movies, the JSA have their role to make those fans happy, the Titans fulfill their promise as the inheritors, and again between the likes of that proto-Space Age book and Black Label miniseries there were still regularly going to be titles about the classic heroes at their peaks alongside their new adventures as elder statesmen. You have that deep history for the longtime fans, and a completely clean slate jumping-on point for anyone curious about headlines of NEW SUPERMAN NEW BATMAN THIS IS PROBABLY WHAT THE MOVIES ARE GONNA BE IN 10 YEARS, with easy-in loglines like "Just as the crown is passed the legacy of Superman is perhaps irreparably tarnished, can Lois and Clark's son Jon Kent overcome his initial stumbles and prove himself worthy of the greatest mantle of all?", "Even Bruce Wayne has given up on Batman...but one man hasn’t, and his ultimate rival is the seemingly destined Blood Heir", "The new Green Lantern found her footing patrolling a single world, but now she's thrown headlong into the most terrifying depths of the cosmos", "Can the ultimate Legacy Hero Dynasty be lived up to by the 'legacy' of one of its oldest enemies?" etc.

All-in-all: of course stuff was still gonna suck, his ultimate (good) brainstorm or not I’m sure DiDio was micromanaging it to hell and I imagine a lot of creators weren’t wild about the pitch “in a blitz of creative fervor unseen since the Silver Age create all our new headliners, who as directly derivative characters you won’t even collect royalties for”. But just in terms of what wound up on the stands each month I can't imagine it wouldn't have been so, so much better than Infinite Frontier's weightless lack of commitment in either direction where we have a new Superman, Batman, Wonder (Girl), Aquaman, and Green Lantern, but they're mostly in kind of subsidiary incidental roles while the classics still handle the big jobs until DC can decide for certain where it's going - the closest to full headliner status being Jon, who's basically holding down the fort while his dad's out of town, doing Regular Superman Stuff and fighting A Lex-Type Guy. I'm really, really hoping against hope that Dark Crisis is actually about letting the kids take center stage in a big way with a big push behind them and the old Justice League still sticking around but yielding at least a little bit of narrative authority, because the current neither fish nor fowl state of things can't continue, and snuffing this out altogether would be such a shame given I truly believe 5G was for all its flaws evident and inevitable DC's most interesting idea in years.

UPDATE: Final note, learned from that Bendis Word Balloon that the cancellation of 5G wasn't an editorial matter but due to shifting corporate priorities above everyone's heads.

UPDATE 2: Well, with a lot of this information, this whole thing pretty quickly goes from 'dammit why'd they have to screw the pooch here' to 'oh there's an excellent chance this would have exploded, huh'. After getting over the initial "JEEEEEEEESUS" reaction to, well, everything with Bruce and Clark, I still don't think it was necessarily 100% doomed, as there were clearly a whole lot of extremely talented creators involved to like with Authority reinterpret those marching orders - I can even imagine a way of doing that dopey Death of The World's Finest with some poetry and grace - but. Y'know. If the success of the plan requires a lot of brilliant people to turn it into something very different: not a great plan. Still would have been something compared to the proud nothing of the broad Infinite Frontier/Dawn of DC slate, and introduced exciting new ideas to be explored here and elsewhere over the longterm in many of the ways I suggested initially, but I can at least feel the relief of knowing that this wasn't some unprecedented moment of defeat being madly snatched unbidden from the jaws of victory.

Except for you, Matt Fraction Jon Kent Superman book. For you, I mourn to the end of time.

[harley-the-pancake]

This is just a post to try and keep things organized on my blog. If you want to know my pronouns, name I go by, age, etc, just look in my bio. I just reblog and post whatever I want.

I don’t have an official dni, I just don’t give a fuck half the time, as long as you aren’t a dick to others, you can stay

I also don’t mind people using ideas that I have, making things off of the ideas or fics I have, or tagging me in silly @ games.

I also have a second account I occasionally use as a studyblr, which is Pancake-tries-college.

My AO3 is Pancake_Overlord

I have two side blogs:

@pancake-tries-college is where I keep my adulting stuff

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Important sorting tags & glossary:

#vent chai latte - posts that are vents or emotional (I don’t always use it I am gonna be honest)

#diary posting - a new tag I’ll be using when I ramble about emotions, meds or just more personal things that are not about my school or friends (LATER HARLEY UPDATE: It is also becoming a bit of less fun school stuff tag, eg talking with professors, getting homework done, etc)

#Into the datemate pile - a tag that I use just to save & share things with my datemate, who does not have an active tumblr

#ph anon of the opera - my ask tag. It does not matter if you are anon or no, you are all ph anon in my eyes hearts (I also have a tendency of hoarding my asks but be free to still send me asks)

#ask game - just replies I’m saving from like descriptions of me or ask games

#my wife saga - my datemate is studying abroad then researching in idaho so I’m being dramatic. This will be happening for 3 months.

#holly on the wally - my tag for my dog Holly! You can block this if you want or if you don’t like dogs

Datemate, mice, jesus, ferret, random trans woman, my friend J, and last remaining cishet: all my irl friends codenames

I don’t support ai, if I use ai randomly in a sentence out of context of ai, it’s because I want to type I and I don’t correct typos

Tell me if I need to tag anything for you

From @hee-blee-art

Posts that I feel like sharing:

A post I made about saving Rats SMP vods and led to some decent archives. I did nothing, but it has the link to the document that has a whole lot of links so!

A post I made with a document that I use to save a whole lot of MCC vods and a few VODs I have saved myself

Not an important post, however it’s a post I love and I want to keep on my pinned for when I want to see. It entails some games of One Night Ultimate Werewolf for my datemate’s birthday

This isn’t a post of mine, but I wanted to save Tumblr fairy tales

A ramble on the life series from my datemate. Read it. This is a threat /silly

A list of things to cheer anyone up ^-^

Candy for any trick or treaters who don’t want to send an ask

Best video ever

Datemate poll

[mykpopwire]

media release: BLITZERS successfully completed their Europe tour

“We made some great memories, and we’re only just getting started.”

The K-pop boy group BLITZERS (JINHWA, GO_U, JUHAN, SYA, CHRIS, LUTAN, and WOOJU) have completed their first Europe tour.

BLITZERS held their final concert in Frankfurt, Germany on October 22nd (local time), ending their first European tour, “BLITZERS 2022 EUROPE TOUR Looking For BLEE”, with a bang.

BLITZERS were able to enjoy time with fans in 12 cities and 8 countries, starting with Milan, Italy on October 3rd, then moving on to Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Austria, and ending in Germany.

With their extensive set list including “K-POP”, “Blitz (Next Level Remix)”, “BOBBIN”, “Hop-in”, “Will Make a Mistake”, “Gradation”, “SLIDE”, and “Hit The Bass”, the rising K-pop group completely captured the hearts of local fans.

In addition to special unit stages of each member that could only be experienced on this Europe tour, BLITZERS was able to interact more actively with local fans through various programs and events that the audiences could participate in, providing memories that fans will never forget.

In particular, BLITZERS was able to hold a surprise random play dance event at FTG Sportfabrik in Frankfurt, Germany on October 21st, a day before their final concert of this tour, thanks to the enthusiastic response from local fans. This event brought together many fans, demonstrating the group’s increasing popularity once again. The boy group responded with exclusive fan service by dancing to “Hit The Bass” with fans and communicating with them.

BLITZERS, who completed their first Europe tour since their debut, showed appreciation for their fans through their agency WUZO Entertainment, saying that “Our BLEE (BLITZERS' official fandom name) in 12 different cities in Europe supported us with their loud cheers and really seemed to enjoy our performances. We made some amazing memories, and really want to come back to Europe soon. We’d like to express our thanks to those who took the time to come to our shows from far away, as well as to our fans who weren’t able to make it in person but supported us from afar.”

The group added that, “Of course we have some things we wish we could re-do in our performances, but we’ll be using these moments as stepping stones for self-development, and we promise to demonstrate our growth. This is only the beginning for BLITZERS. We’ll continue to work hard so we can meet even more of our BLEEs,” showing the group’s passion and aspirations for the future.

BLITZERS, who successfully completed their first Europe tour amid the explosive cheers of K-pop fans around the world, will continue to dazzle the world as global “hot rookies”.

*photos courtesy of WUZO Entertainment

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[fierceawakening]

apropos of the last post without the controversial content:

I guess my thing is I really don't like "you can't change this."

I don't mind "that's really hard to change, and you may have to resign yourself to very slow and steady incremental changes, because it is so hard. are you sure you want to start such a potentially disheartening project?"

But "don't even try" just makes me... like, why not be dead if I'm not gonna even try things? How does that work?

I dunno. I... well... to nerd out about game alignments, I'm blue.

Blue believes that each and every one of us is born a blank slate with the potential to become anything. The entire point of life is figuring out what you could achieve with the right education, experience, and tools. Note that this is not a task with an end goal, but one that continues throughout your life. There will always be things you can do to improve, change, or adapt. The journey of life is one of constant discovery as you keep seeking to better yourself.

When people tell me not to try things because they're hard, or because I'm disabled, or blah blah foo bar blee, they're telling me to stop doing what I think life is, and that's really confusing to me.

I know it's just you guys are a different alignment, but instincively: Are... are y'all okay.

[hee-blee-art]

I couldn't wait any longer to share my (work-in-progress) audio fiction project, Field Evaluation!

Field Evaluation is the story of Joseph Viscount, a field evaluator with the Fortuna North Research Facility who investigates claims of anomalous phenomena. Specialising in a particular anomaly called The Liminal, Joseph seeks out abandoned, uncanny, and inexplicable places to determine if there is anything to the superstitions that surround them.

You can learn more about Field Evaluation on my projects page linked below and stay tuned here and on @cleaverdream for updates and more!

[CW: Heavy unreality, paranoia, horror & unsettling themes]

[sailorportia]

For the fanfic ask thing: 3, 4, 10, 13, 21, 28, 50, 51

Thank you for the asks, Tomato! <3

3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in? Little Witch Academia, naturally! It’s a cozy little fandom that doesn’t have the problems that larger fandoms tend to. I feel very at home in a fandom that’s f/f-centric.

4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms? I’m not very prolific when it comes to fandoms, but I haven’t had any negative experiences in the other fandoms I’ve dipped my toes into.

10.  Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in? Every once in a while I partake in some f/f Twilight fanfic, and I don’t think I’ll ever get around to writing for it xD

13. Any NoTPs? Not to be a huge cliche, but I don’t really care for Andrew/Akko; they’re bros, dude! In general, I don’t care for the standard “yuck” ships: minor/adult, incest, etc.

21. What was the first fanfic you ever wrote? The first fic I wrote that I’ll admit to was actually pretty off-brand for me: a non-shipping fic starring Amanda! The first fics that I won’t admit to were during my brony phase, but since that was pre-transition I’m legally allowed to pretend it never happened.

28. If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of? As a matter of fact, people have done fanart for Butch Diana! There’s… a lot of it. Y’all really are gay for butch Diana! I feel so guilty for not updating the fic in so long (and yes, the guilt is motivating me to get back to work on it!)

Butch Diana art from @blee-bleep [x] @eythia [x] @j-gals [x] @alscora [x] @mmmiru [x] [x] @bakalouise [x] @aweirdlatina [x] my dear friend @ryuucaro [x] (that one’s my desktop bg!) and this FANTASTIC animatic by @superevilbadguyI feel so blessed that all these cool ppl (and more?) made such cool stuff based off my silly fic <3 <3 <3

50. How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction? In a serendipitous twist of fate, I saw someone I follow on Twitter post a link to a Love Live! Sunshine!! fic on Ao3. I dove right into those fics and then it occurred to me, “wait, I love Diana & Akko as a couple, I should read some of that!” I loved Diakko fics so much I had to write my own, and the rest is… history? xD

51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go! I love the intertextuality of fanfiction! We’re not just basing our fics off the source material; we’re reacting to each other’s fics, picking up little quirks and headcanons from each other and running with them, making the whole fandom experience a lot more fun!!!

[deliriumsdelight7]

Ask game:

10. How do you usually keep yourself motivated?

15. What has been the easiest thing about working on Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat so far?

Thanks for the ask, my friend!

10.) Honestly? The entire reason I have multiple WIPs is to keep me motivated. I HATE focusing on one project for too long. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. It makes me want to do ANYTHING else. But also… if I start working on a fic, and my ideas just refuse to come together, it’s usually an indicator that the idea isn’t right yet - that it needs time to grow and develop in my mind. That’s where I’ll put that fic down for a while and work on something else. Eventually, something will sort of click into place in my mind, and I’ll be ready to go back to it.

15.) Ugh. There is not a single goddamn thing easy about that fic (hence the long time between updates). The characters aren’t acting how I planned, which isn’t fucking with the plot as a whole, but it IS making the romance really damn difficult. I’m trying to figure out a way to get them to talk that isn’t the old “lock the two bickering people in a room together until they talk and/or bone” trope, but desperate times might call for desperate measures.

Anyway. I guess the easiest part would be Gold’s constant, ridiculous, over the top “I’m such a badass assassin monster, so very unworthy of the love of perfect innocent Belle bloo blee bloo” inner monologues. Those are fun.

[worldfinancenews]

Crypto Crash Latest Update: Cryptocurrency market cap crashes to $1.38T; Terra (LUNA), UST blee

[rabbittstewcomics]

Episode 299

Comic Reviews:

DC Festival of Heroes - The Asian Superhero Celebration by Greg Pak, Gene Luen Yang, Pornsak Pichetshote, Amy Chu, Mariko Tamaki, Sarah Kuhn, Ram V, Alyssa Wong, Minh Le, Aniz Adam Ansari, Dustin Nguyen, Cliff Chiang, Francis Manapul, Philip Tan, Sean Chen, Marcus To, Marcio Takara, Sami Basri, Jim Cheung, Jae Lee, Gurihiru, Kevin Wada, Victoria Ying, Audrey Mok, Sumit Kumar, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Trung Le Nguyen, Bernard Chang, Norm Rapmund, Rain Beredo, Sunny Gho, Jordie Bellaire, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Sebastian Cheng, Jen Bartel, June Chang

Future State: Gotham 1 by Joshua Williamson, Dennis Culver, Giannis Milonogiannis, Yasmine Putri

Justice League: Last Ride 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Miguel Mendonca

Legends of the Dark Knight 7 by Stephanie Phillips, Max Dunbar

Rorschach 8 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart

Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man: King's Ransom by Nick Spencer, Carlos Gomez, Ze Carlos, Roge Antonio, Alex Sinclair

Heroes Reborn: Hyperion and the Imperial Guard by Ryan Cady, Michele Bandini, Elisabetta D'Amico, Arick Arciniega

Heroes Reborn: Peter Parker - The Amazing Shutterbug by Marc Bernardin, Rafael De Latorre, Ron Lim, Scott Hanna, Jim Campbell

Heroes Reborn 2 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, Matt Wilson, 

X-Corp 1 by Tini Howard, Alberto Foche, Sunny Gho

Time Before Time 1 by Rory McConville, Declan Shalvey, Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran

Silver Coin 2 by Kelly Thompson, Michael Walsh

Black Hammer Visions 4 by Mariko Tamaki, Diego Olortegui, Dave Stewart

House of Lost Horizons: A Sarah Jewell Mystery 1 by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Leila Del Duca, Michelle Madsen

Silver City 1 by Olivia Cuartero-Briggs, Luca Merli

Hailstone 1 by Rafael Scavone, Rafael de Latorre, Rafael Albuquerque, Wesllei Manoel

Starfall High 1 by Adam Blackhat, Mayerlin Uribe

99 Cent Theater

Caspian Porter 0 by Drew Lenhart, Juan Fleites, Jonathan Wetmore

Fire Queen 1 by Thea Belak, Marin Markel

Princess Who Saved Herself by Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton, Takeshi Miyazawa

Softies: Stuff That Happens After the World Blows Up by Kyle Smeallie

Fearless by Kenny Porter

We Run by Chip Zdarsky and Elsa Charretier

Additional Reviews: Line of Duty, Project Hail Mary, Suicide Squad: Bad Blood, Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle

News: Chip Zdarsky on Hulk, Clownhunter vs. Punchline, Bitter Root movie by Bryan Hill and Regina King, War of the Bounty Hunters is six months and 33 parts, Kang mini by Lanzing and Kelly, Amphibia season finale gets an air date, Knives Out 2 casting, Round Robin updates

Trailers: Wish Dragon

Comics Countdown:

Rorschach 8 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart

Black Hammer Visions 4 by Mariko Tamaki, Diego Olortegui, Dave Stewart

Joker 3 by James Tynion IV, Guillem March, Arif Prianto

Birthright 49 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, Adriano Lucas

Time After Time 1 by Rory McConville, Declan Shalvey, Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran

Seven Secrets 8 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Walter Baiamonte, Katia Ranalli

American Vampire 1976 8 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Dave McCaig

Guardians of the Galaxy 14 by Al Ewing, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee

Geiger 2 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson

Proctor Valley Road 3 by Grant Morrison, Alex Child, Naomi Franquiz, Tamra Bonvillain

Check out this episode!